Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published April 13, 2023 7:29 A.M. 

(Ambridge, PA) Ambridge Fire Department responded to a fire in nearby Bell Acres Borough recently. Jordan Turner, one the department’s firefighters,  saved the resident’s dog, he also conducted a program on Career Day at Highland Elementary School.  He was named the borough’s Employee of the Month.

Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published April 13, 2023 7:26 A.M.

(Aliquippa, PA) PA State police were called to the Eleanor Roosevelt Apartments , 740  Sheffield Avenue at 12:07 a.m. Wednesday to assist Aliquippa Police and take over the investigation into the death of a 40 year old female. No foul play is suspected, and the investigation is still open, according got a state police report issued Wednesday afternoon.

The Congressman toured Pittsburgh Technical College alongside President and CEO Dr. Harvey-Smith and other college staff. Photo courtesy of the office of Congressman Deluzio.

OAKDALE, PA – On Monday, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) visited Pittsburgh Technical College (PTC) a two-year, private, non-profit regionally accredited college in Pennsylvania’s 17^th Congressional District and announced that his office has helped the institution secure release of $3,729,168.71 in Employee Retention Tax Credits.

The IRS had allocated the federal credits, but the funds had been held up since they were first requested in the summer of 2021 and were delayed for over a year. Recognizing the critical need for funding, Congressman Deluzio’s office worked in coordination with the Internal Revenue Service and secured the release of the nearly $3.8 million in federal funds, including interest, that were slated to arrive on April 11^th, 2023. These new funds will help PTC retain instructors, boost workforce training for in-demand careers, and support students with scholarships and services.

“Colleges with an applied and technical focus like Pittsburgh Technical College help provide critical workforce training to fill good-paying, frequently union jobs that keep our community running,” said Congressman Deluzio. “I am proud that my constituent services team and I were able to bring home these federal funds to support job growth and training for those jobs right here in the 17^th Congressional District.”

“At Pittsburgh Technical College, one of our top strategic priorities is to expand access to higher education for all students in our region through scholarships and grants,” said PTC President/CEO Dr. Alicia B. Harvey-Smith. “Thanks to Congressman Deluzio and his team for assisting in expediting the release of this significant tax credit to PTC. These funds strengthen our ability to serve our mission of providing comprehensive access to advanced technical education.”

Dr. Harvey-Smith continued, “Congressman Deluzio and his team are great partners. Partnerships like this are key to transformative impact for all citizens across the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. Pittsburgh Technical College is a community asset committed to expanding partnerships to innovatively develop an in-demand workforce. This funding helps to position PTC as an educator of choice in applied and technical education and further achieve its institutional priorities of building a comprehensive middle skills pipeline and fueling economic development, a commitment realized through a 95% in field placement rate.”

Among other things, the close to $3.8 million in tax credits will help Pittsburgh Technical College:

• Stabilize its workforce in applied and technical areas.
• Fund critical workforce initiatives for in-demand careers in Allegheny County, especially training Nurses, First Responders in Criminal Justice, Trades and Welding Professionals.
• Close gaps resulting from declines in enrollment and auxiliary revenue due to the pandemic.
• Provide students with vital resources such as scholarships and support services to enhance personal and professional success.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The electronics subsidiary of German company Merck KGaA says it will spend $300 million to expand its specialty gas production facility in eastern Pennsylvania. The announcement Wednesday was attended by Gov. Josh Shapiro. EMD Electronics says it will create the world’s largest integrated specialty gases facility to serve the fast-growing semiconductor industry. State officials hope it will boost Pennsylvania’s appeal to computer chip makers. Shapiro is pledging more than $1 million in state grants for the expansion in Schuylkill County. Company officials say the site houses a research center and synthesizes materials that form core building blocks of transistors, a component of microchips.

FILE – The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are edging higher on Wall Street after a report showed inflation is cooling faster than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher Wednesday after bouncing between small gains and losses earlier. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose and and Nasdaq composite was relatively unchanged. A report showed prices at the consumer level rose 5% last month from a year earlier. That’s still high, which kept a check on financial markets. But it was also below what economists expected and marked a continued slowdown from inflation’s peak last summer. Yields also swayed following the report.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks to reporters during a news conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo and Philippine Officer in Charge of the Department of National Defense Carlito Galvez, at the State Department, Tuesday, April 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been less than a week since news of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war surfaced, sending the Pentagon into full-speed damage control to assure allies and assess the scope of the leak. The information on scores of slides has publicized potential vulnerabilities in Ukraine’s air defense capabilities and exposed private assessments by allies on an array of intelligence matters. Among the questions raised by the leak are whether it will erode allies’ trust in sharing information with the U.S. or impact Ukraine’s plans to intensify the fight against Russia this spring.

The likeness of Benjamin Franklin is seen on a U.S. $100 bill, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. In a time of high inflation and high interest rates, refunds for taxpayers are on average 10% smaller this year compared with last year, in part due to expired pandemic relief programs. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

NEW YORK (AP) — If you’re expecting a tax refund, it could be smaller than last year. And with inflation still high, that money won’t go as far as it did a year ago. The 90 million taxpayers who have filed as of March 31 got refunds that were an average of nearly 10% less than last year. That’s in part due to pandemic relief programs expiring. The filing deadline for most taxpayers is Tuesday. According to the most recent IRS data, the average refund is $2,910, down from $3,226. That’s a difference of more than $300.

Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing a portion of Pine Grove Road (Route 4039) in Industry Borough, Beaver County, will close to traffic today, Wednesday, April 12 for wall repair work.

A portion of Pine Grove Road between Doyle Road and Route 68 will close to traffic for wall repair work. Local traffic will be accommodated to the repair area. Through traffic will be detoured via Route 68, Barclay Hill Road and Doyle Road. The project is expected to be completed in late May.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 950 traffic cameras.

FILE – An electric vehicle charges at an EVgo fast charging station in Detroit on Nov. 16, 2022. The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032 — a nearly tenfold increase over current EV sales, according to an announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032. That’s a nearly tenfold increase over current electric vehicle sales. The proposed regulation was announced Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The regulation would set tailpipe emissions limits for the 2027 through 2032 model years that call for far more new EVs than the auto industry agreed to sell less than two years ago. If finalized next year, the plan would represent the strongest push yet toward a once almost unthinkable shift from gasoline-powered cars and trucks to battery-powered vehicles.